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Hunt the Gowk, Scottish equivalent of April Fools Day (gowk is a cuckoo)

Francis Arthur Fahy who wrote the ballad Galway Bay, died

DeValera is elected president of the first Dáil Éireann

St. Clair Mulholland, Union Civil War General and Medal of Honor winner, is born in Lisburn, Co. Antrim

Irish-born Edward Hand is appointed a Brigadier General in the Continental Army

Samuel Boyse, MP for Bannow, dies as a result of a duel at the age of 33

The first Doggett Coat and Badge sculling race takes place on the Thames

Dumbarton Castle, under siege since January 1570, captured by Captain Thomas Crawford